Statement record

Angus King — Jun 8, 2023

U.S. Senator (I-ME) · Jun 8, 2023

June 8, 2023: “As much of the country feels the impacts of Canadian wildfires,” King pressed Interior to increase federal forest harvest. CO2 from catastrophic fires / more cutting — not a climate-cause sentence for this plume.

Codes

Disaster Mention yes — Canadian wildfires covering Mid-Atlantic with smoke.
Climate Connection no — Harvest/CO2-from-fires frame.
Mentioned Republican Obstruction of Climate Action no